Artifical Intelligence in Arbitration: Ethical considerations

Aspect members: University of Manchester, University of Bristol. 

This project allowed researchers to engage with the relevant commercial stakeholders (specifically AI firms, law firms, and arbitral institutions) to ensure the careful and ethically appropriate integration of AI technologies into commercial arbitration processes through the application of the academic research conducted by the authors. One of the central aims of the project was to create a commercially viable and self-sustainable legal online platform that would enable knowledge transfer of the findings of the authors’ existing and future research to relevant businesses.

Why was this needed?

There was a widespread assumption that increased use of technology in legal services was always a “positive” development. This assumption was largely based on “utopian” claims about the capacity of technological development to improve legal practice, make it more affordable, and improve the accessibility to legal services. Such assumptions needed to be challenged to ensure the careful and ethically appropriate integration of AI technologies into commercial arbitration processes.